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Thomas Hill (British/American, 1829 to 1908)
Thomas Hill is considered one of the foremost landscape painters of the American West. Born in Birmingham, England, Hill came to the United States a young painter in 1844. His family settled in Massachusetts where Hill apprenticed to a coach painter. In 1853 Hill attended figure painting classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Peter Frederick Rothermel (1817-1895). Hill became a successful portraitist [...] Click here to continue reading.
James Rogers Lamantia (American, 1923-2011)
James Lamantia was a noted architect, artist and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Tulane University. A graduate of Tulane and Harvard Universities and a Rome Scholar, Lamantia worked in architectural firms in both New Orleans and New York. Lamantia was also an accomplished painter; he exhibited his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Chicago Art Institute among others. Most recently [...] Click here to continue reading.
Adolph Gottlieb (American, 1903-1974)
Adolph Gottlieb began a storied career under the leadership of John Sloan and Robert Henri at the Art Students League of New York. Departing for Paris in 1921 to study at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere before returning to New York in 1923. Gottlieb’s career is described as having four phases: Pictographs (1940s), Grids and Imaginary Landscapes (1951-1957), Busts (1957-1974), and Imaginary Landscapes (1960s). Gottlieb is perhaps best known [...] Click here to continue reading.
Benton Henderson Clark (American, 1895-1964)
First learning drawing under the leadership of artist Arthur Woelfle, Clark went on to study painting at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1913. By 1915 Clark had arrived at the Chicago Art Institute where it is believed he sold a group of his first illustrations. Benton is perhaps best known from his western illustrations appearing in The Saturday Evening Post, McCalls, and Good Housekeeping.
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Charles Leslie Thrasher (1889-1936)
The editors of Liberty magazine, which first appeared on the newstand in 1924, prided themselves on innovation – any innovation that would broaden their readership. One of their most successful and appealing ideas was the “continuity cover”, and the artist who took the assignment was Leslie Thrasher. For six years, Thrasher created a cover a week for $1,000 each, depicting the lives of a middle-class couple and their extended family, [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is in New York City and connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. It was designed by John Augustus Roebling as a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge. Roebling was killed in an accident just before construction started in 1869. His son Washington A. Roebling who had assisted his father in the design of the Brooklyn bridge and several other projects then took over the job of chief engineer at the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Alfred Heber Hutty
Born in Grand Haven, Michigan, in 1877, Alfred Hutty went to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1919 when he was in his early forties and immediately cabled his wife “Come quickly. Have found heaven.”
Hutty had worked as a stained glass designer in Kansas City and at Tiffany Glass Studios in New York, but he had also begun a long association with the Woodstock, New York, art community and with Lowell Birge [...] Click here to continue reading.
Marion and Donald Woelbing, Franklin Wisconsin.
Marion and Donald Woelbing were the solid citizen types that for generations have built American small businesses. They were a true partnership supporting each other in their diverse interests ranging from breeding and showing American Kennel Club grand champion prize winning dogs, to building with their own hands “Thorntree,” their home in suburban Milwaukee, to building an impressive collection of 17th and 18th century American antiques, to collecting [...] Click here to continue reading.
William Thomas Smedley (American, 1858 to 1920)
William Thomas Smedley was a freelance artist who provided illustrations for many books and major magazines such as Scribner’s, Harper’s, and The Ladies Home Journal during the latter half of the 19th century. Smedley, who was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1858, received his formal artistic training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. At the completion of his education there, Smedley moved to [...] Click here to continue reading.
Ex Collection of Thomas S. Holman: Souvenirs of The Grand Tour
In the 18th and early 19th century young Englishmen embarked on lengthy travels to the Continent, known as the Grand Tour. Ostensibly, the voyage was to round out one’s education, which still emphasized a strong knowledge of Classical arts and architecture, languages, history, literature, and philosophy. It also provided months, and sometimes even years, to collect art and artifacts. Later in the [...] Click here to continue reading.
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